Showcase - National Weather Service

MCPBus showcase to create MCP-connector to the National Weather Service API (NWS).

One line command used to create MCP-server:

mcpbus \
 --openapi-spec=https://downloads.mcpbus.io/config/openapi-weather-gov.json \
 --openapi-auth-api-key=abcxyz

Publicly available MCP-endpoint:

https://nws-showcase.mcpbus.io/mcp

Claude Desktop

1. Open Claude Desktop config file claude_desktop_config.json (can be accessed via Claude Desktop UI in Settings->Developer->Edit Config).

2. In the config "mcpServers" section - add JSON entry describing your MCP server which was run with MCPBus:

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   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "National Weather Service API": {
         "command": "/usr/local/bin/npx",
         "args": [
           "mcp-remote",
           "https://nws-showcase.mcpbus.io/mcp",
           "--transport",
           "http-first",
           "--debug"
         ]
       }
     }
   }
   

3. Restart Claude Desktop.

Claude Code

Command to add National Weather Service MCP-connector to Claude Code:

claude mcp add \
  --transport http \
  National-Weather-Service-API \
  https://nws-showcase.mcpbus.io/mcp

Gemini CLI

Command to add National Weather Service MCP-connector to Gemini CLI:

gemini mcp add \
  --transport http \
  "National Weather Service API" \
  https://nws-showcase.mcpbus.io/mcp